A kind of cognitive framework called graph thinking is circulating through the KGC community. So let’s explore this notion. Also, let’s suspend any discussion about technology, for the moment, and talk about cognition. Among the people who use knowledge graphs effectively, how do they conceptualize the problem? Ostensibly, when…

Open source tools and techniques for visualizing data on custom maps — Throughout the global pandemic, many people have spent lots of time viewing maps that visualize data. Important data. People who work in data science are probably seeing increased needs to work with geospatial data, especially for visualizations. There are increased needs to understand metrics about geographic regions, to analyze supply…

Posting for a friend who doesn’t want to be linked directly, for obvious reasons. Part interview, part summary analysis. While I cannot verify details, the story had drawn me in. Not that I’m saying it’s a good direction, nor that I agree with the approach necessarily. However, this appears to…

Something I’ve learnt from 39.5 years of using email every day for work: If you are the kind of person who communicates with another person to tell them that you need to communicate with them… Then you are a dreadfully stupid person. There, I’ve said it. Time to exhale. Let’s…

Religious conservatives have gone too far. They’ve had ample time and opportunities to behave in a civil manner, and to police their own. However, the time for civility is now long passed. To be clear, religion is important for many people. Points discussed herein represent no contention against that. Religion…

In an era of AI adoption in industry, stark contrasts in our thinking begin to show about how we leverage computing, data, and inference. This article considers graph technologies in the context of business: enhancing human thinking and enabling data exploration, especially among teams of domain experts augmented by AI…

The 2021 Knowledge Graph Conference, held online May 3–6, had over 1,000 people attending. Special thanks to all of the 20+ people who volunteered to assist with the conference! We have the results from an audience poll about which parts they liked best, and also from an informal poll…

I think that people tend to get the wrong idea about technology, particularly software. We make new capabilities. To have a defensible strategy in business, the “newness” of what you’re making cannot be minor. Firms must aim higher, provide more than simply incremental advances. They must push far enough ahead…

For a full day on December 14, 2020, LinkedIn sponsored a virtual workshop called Metadata Day, followed by a public online meetup called Metaspeak. View videos of the event on their website including a set of lightning talks provided by several of the speakers. The gist is that circa 2018…